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Affordable Rent

Clinic Nurse Manager

Affordable Rent, Denver, Colorado, United States, 80285


The mission of the Colorado Coalition for the Homeless is to work collaboratively toward the prevention of homelessness and the creation of lasting solutions for homeless and at-risk families, children, and individuals throughout Colorado. The Coalition advocates for and provides a continuum of housing and a variety of services to improve the health, well-being, and stability of those it serves.

The Colorado Coalition for the Homeless seeks a

Clinic Nurse Manager

who, under the Associate Director of Nursing (DON), will manage nursing services and functioning of Stout Street Health Center (SSHC). This will be done in accordance with current federal, state, and local standards, guidelines, and regulations that govern CCH to ensure that the highest degree of quality care is managed at all times.This position is both administrative and skilled nursing care to the patients at SSHC. This position is located at 2130 Stout Street, Denver, CO 80205 and reports to the Associate Director of Nursing.Qualified candidates are eligible for the

NURSE Corps Loan Repayment Program

which offers payment of

60% of unpaid nursing education debt

in exchange for a two-year commitment at a NURSE Corps approved site

with an option to extend to a third year for an additional 25% of the original balance.NOTE:

In order to ensure that our consumers receive the best possible care, the candidate chosen to fill this position will be required to complete our internal credentialing and privileging process prior to a start date.

The credentialing and privileging timeline is dependent on the selected candidate's submission of documents necessary for clearance.

Please note that a start date will be scheduled once credentialing and privileging is complete.In addition to the unique challenges and extraordinary rewards of our work, eligible Coalition employees enjoy a rich benefits package, including:Choice of HMO or PPO health insurance coverage options: full-time employees contribute only 1% of their earnings for their own HMO health coverage and no more than 4% of their earnings for coverage of eligible dependents. We’re proud to offer same-and opposite-sex domestic partner coverage.Choice of dental insurance or discount plan.Vision insurance.Flexible spending accounts for health care / dependent care / parking expenses.Free basic life and AD&D insurance coverage.Employee Assistance Program, a problem-solving resource available to you and your household members.Dollar-for-dollar retirement plan matching contributions up to 5% of earnings with 3-year vesting.Extensive paid time-off, including 9 holidays, 12 days of sick leave, and three weeks of vacation for new full-time employees in their first year.The effective date for your benefits will be the first of the month following your date of hire.Essential Job FunctionsDirectly supervises health center-based Registered Nurses and Nurse Coordinators, including personnel actions related to hiring, orientation, performance appraisals, counseling, staff disciplinary issues, and staff scheduling.Responsible for the competencies of all clinical nursing staff members, ensuring clinical nursing quality of care, and ensuring all nursing staff members are practicing within their respective scope, at the highest level, in accordance with the State of Colorado.Holds weekly 1:1 supervision with direct reports, including permanent, temporary, agency, or volunteer staff who are filling these roles, providing feedback, coaching, mentorship, training, support, competency evaluations, and performance management feedback.Maintains a high standard of care on the team by offering or assigning relevant trainings, providing clear expectations of best practices, policies, and procedures, evaluating staff with quality assurance metrics, and supporting remediation or counseling as necessary.Consistently adheres, maintains, improves, and updates the standard work for the Nurse Manager position.Monitors RN FTE, and schedules the team according to established ratios, ensuring the communication and scheduling of nursing staff for each relevant clinical position’s daily needs.Represents SSHC around nursing services and supportive health service activity operations, staff engagement, patient care, and workflow operations at appropriate health center leadership meetings.Participates in and leads quality improvement projects for SSHC and the nursing department.Ensures collaboration of care and consistency in all integrated health suite teams, upholding the ongoing part of our best practices policy.Communicates, organizes, and co-leads discipline meetings on a regular basis in conjunction with other RN Leadership.Champions and leads quality improvement initiatives for the team, sharing knowledge with and coaching other RN team or inter-disciplinary members on quality improvement & LEAN methodology.Helps to create and coach a culture within the health suite teams that fosters and reflects collaboration, mutual respect, and trust.Ensures that communication among the integrated care team is regular and routine by facilitating and/or delegating a schedule of regular suite team huddles and writing care plans for certain individual patients receiving care with CCH.Ensures pertinent information is shared across disciplines and within the other health care suites and other CCH resources as appropriate.Acts as a leader to share information and problem solve with other CCH Leadership for the purpose of continuous improvement to patient care and staff needs.Brings personnel issues to the attention of appropriate supervisors for resolution.Provides skilled nursing care according to accepted community standards of care to preserve and/or enhance the patient’s highest level of functioning.Available for workday or evening clinic as scheduled or appropriate.Maintains EHR core competencies as evidenced by being one of the designated NextGen super users and trainers for nursing services staff members.Uses telephone template to record communications regarding a patient.Records all patient visits into Nextgen, ensuring that PMH, PSH, FH, social history, and allergies are recorded.Uses inbox to manage tasks.Records vital signs into Nextgen.Completes intake note and submits a superbill in Nextgen to bill for RN services.Enters immunizations into Nextgen.Ability to enter current patient medications into the medication template.Performs other duties as assigned.Employee must be able to perform essential job functions with or without reasonable accommodation and without posing a direct threat to the safety or health of self or others. To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential function satisfactorily.

Employee will perform the job according to applied laws.

The requirements listed above are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.Qualifications SummaryRegistered Nurse, currently licensed in the State of Colorado.Preferred Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree (BSN).Two (2) years experience as a supervisor in a community health center, hospital, long-term care facility, or other related health care facility preferred.Two (2) years experience as an RN. Ambulatory, public or community health, home health nursing, or urgent care experience preferred.Certification in Basic Life Support (BLS)-CPR.WHERE A CANDIDATE IS PLACED IN THE COMPENSATION RANGE DEPENDS ON TOTAL RELEVANT YEARS OF EXPERIENCE.The Colorado Coalition for the Homeless is committed to delivering services, making employment-related decisions, selecting volunteers, and selecting vendors without regard to age over 40, race, sex, color, religion, creed, national origin, ancestry, disability, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy, medical condition related to pregnancy, military status, or any other applicable status protected by law.

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